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Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe 1st Anchor Books Ed edition
Michael Olesker
Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe 1st Anchor Books Ed edition
Michael Olesker
A harrowing, action-packed account of the author's series of audacious escapes from the Nazis' Final Solution--"riveting...a fascinating and moving piece of history" (Library Journal).
Young Leo Bretholz survived the Holocaust by escaping from the Nazis (and others) not once, but seven times during his almost seven-year ordeal crisscrossing war-torn Europe. He leaped from trains, outran police, and hid in attics, cellars, anywhere that offered a few more seconds of safety. First he swam the River Sauer at the German-Belgian border. Later he climbed the Alps on feet so battered they froze to his socks--only to be turned back at the Swiss border. He crawled out from under the barbed wire of a French holding camp, and hid in a village in the Pyrenees while gendarmes searched it. And in the dark hours of one November morning, he escaped from a train bound for Auschwitz.
Leap into Darkness is the sweeping memoir of one Jewish boy's survival, and of the family and the world he left behind.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 14, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780385497053 |
Publishers | Anchor |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 130 × 203 × 15 mm · 249 g |
Language | English |
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